Graceful shutdown of RHEL 5 (CentOS 5) guest on Windows Server 2003 host
Greetings,I have VMware Server 2.0.2 Build 203138 running on a Windows Server 2003 32-bit host. The guest is a RHEL 5 guest that's actually running CentOS 5 (currently 5.7). Everything is fine as far...
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Hi, I've just installed VMware server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop and setted up 2 bridged network. One is bridged to a Ethernet card and the other one is bridged to a wireless card. My problem is...
View ArticleVMWare Host agent fail to start 0x40000015 0x781346b4
Hi everybody This post is not to send a question, but an answer ! Host OS : Windows XP SP3 I was using VMWare server 2.0 successfully for a while, when my company's laptop has to endure a rebuild.Since...
View ArticleGuest network connectivity lost during terminal services logon to host
Hi I have several dell servers running VMware server 2.0.2 on Windows server 2008 R2 On each of these servers I have three or four guests, some guests are running windows server 2003 and others running...
View ArticleAssign valid IP addresses to virtual machines
Hello every one, First of all I wanted to mention that I'm totally new to this virtualization thing and forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I'm really confused about that. So I have a dedicated...
View ArticleThe selected file is not a valid virtual disk file
Hi!, I'm having a problem with one of my virtual machines on VMWARE Server 2. Suddenly, after a server crash, the machine didn't boot up correctly. Apparently something went wrong with the hard disk....
View ArticleBlue screen (BAD_POOL_CALLER) when starting windows xp in vmware server 2
Since an unexpected reboot of the Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.10), the windows XP Professional that was installed in the vmware server 2 machine stopped working. Now everytimei turn it on, a blue screen...
View ArticleVMware Server 2 - web interface - login without typing username and password ?
Hi all!Is there any way to login to Vmware Server 2 web interfaceas appropriate user without entering username and password ? (i want to simplify login to web interface of VMware Server 2) The same...
View ArticleDisk thrashing on Host and poor guest performance
Hi all We have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 host with 48GB memory, First data partition is 375GB (RAID1 120GB free) and second is 558GB (RAID1 50GB free)Windows is managing the paging file and has...
View Articlemsg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug strikes again
Hello, I get this message msg.vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort.rudeunplug:Operation on file "D:\Virtual_Machines\Arbeit\Arbeit.vmdk" failed.... The last thing I have done in this VM was installing Microsoft...
View ArticlePerformance tuning in Server 2.0
Everyone has their favorite list of performance tweaks for the old 1.0 Server product. MemTrimRate, pshare, etc. Has anyone applied these tweaks to the 2.0 product? Do they still help with...
View ArticleOk, New Issue Installing 64 bit Guest....79% Creating User
It seems to be stuck at 79% Installing System - Creating User Been in this spot for 10 minutes now.... Ideas?
View ArticleVMWare Server - Guest OS does not startup after Host system reboots
I have an issue where the only running Guest OS within VMWare Server does not start up after the host reboots. I have looked into this and I already applied the following settings for the guest VM;...
View ArticleVMware server virtual disk creation wizard & utility don't know about...
VMware Server 2.0 running on Vista Ultimate. I have a small system drive mounted as C:, and many large drives mounted in the same file system: C:\vm\mnt\{sg32-a,sg32-b} etc. There is only 160GB free...
View ArticleIntermittent network connection issues
I have VMWare Server installed on an HP ML350 G5 running Windows 2008 Server Enterprise 64-bit, with 28GB RAM and two 2.33Ghz Xeon processors. This server is also the active domain controller,...
View ArticleConverting Split Disk To Single File - Data Loss!
Hi, Something pretty strange happened to us today. In order to migrate from VMWARE SERVER 2 to ESXi when needed to convert from growable virtual disks split in 2gb files to a single file. We used...
View ArticleWhen NAT is used Guest OS can't setup TCP connection but UDP is ok
I'm using VMWare Server 2 on WIndows 7 x64 and set up VM with NAT connection to the host. However I just found I can connect to outside with UDP from the VM but TCP connections always fail....
View ArticleIPv6 connectivity between guest and host
Hi all, Hope I got the right place, I find this forum structure very confusing. Anyway. Situation is this: I have a dual-stack network using router advertisments, putting all systems on the...
View ArticleHost to VM network dodgy (bridge mode)
Problem: Connectivity between the host and the VM randomly drops out. Observed: The problem only seems to occur when the host network cards are teamed and the host OS is Windows 2008 R2 (x64). This...
View ArticleWeb access console doesn't display Virtual Hardware Version #.
I'm trying to determine why my VM isn't showing all USB storage devices in the web console and I came across docs indicating that this capability came with the most recent virtual hardware. However,...
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